Vognar's Top 5 actors-turned-directors, including one of the most remarkable in the biz

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2. Raoul Walsh – Walsh actually directed Lupino in the Bogart classic High Sierra. But he was also a prolific silent film actor – he played John Wilkes Booth in The Birth of a Nation – before becoming a master filmmaker in the studio system. He directed Clark Gable (left) and Yvonne de Carlo in "Band of Angels."

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